With
our tummies full of holiday goodies, we’ve dusted off last January’s resolutions
for yet another whirl as we ponder what’s in store throughout 2007 for
our families; community, state, nation; and world. Whether prospects for
the future bode well, or not, Father Time marches on.

While
the War on Christmas is behind us for another year, Americans continue
to face the War on Terror and what has popularly become known as today’s
Culture War. Fewer grapple with what Phyllis Schlafly dubs “the Quiet
War against American Independence.” We can be assured, however, that this
World War of sorts, being fought in the name of “harmonization,” is not
going away anytime soon.

“Harmonization”
is today’s trendy term for eliminating boundaries of nation-states (i.e.,
sovereignty) in exchange for democratic trans-nationalism. Toward this
end, America’s Constitutional Republic is being coaxed to morph into a
regionally-defined social democracy headed by “civil society” (i.e., non-elected
non-governmental organizations).

These
NGOs effectively transcend political barriers at all levels, from local
to international. They work to supplant rightful private ownership with
public ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
This is called “socialism,” far from what the original Superman defended
as “the American way.”

Certainly,
no one has the “inside scoop,” but ongoing trends shed light on reasonable
expectations for 2007—whether in reference to marriage/alternative families;
“free speech”/pornography; life/abortion, euthanasia; private property/urban
clusters; sovereignty/globalism—all of which factor into the global forecast.

So
Long, Sovereignty

In providing
a worldwide system of checks and balances, sovereignty has served the
world well historically in that it answers the essential question, “Who’s
in charge?” No matter, globalists demean the concept as an unfeasible,
deplorable division of humankind on nationalistic grounds; some go so
far as to brand it a “virus.”

Bottom
line: The late Ronald Reagan rightly noted that a nation without borders
is not a nation at all. Of course, this poses no problem to internationalists.
You see, these have in view a sort of utopian Global Village. By definition,
globalism is an interdependent, borderless one-world state rejecting America’s
rugged individualism for so-called collaborative cosmic consciousness.
Global citizens pledge allegiance—not to the US of A—but rather to the
world community.

Globalization
speaks specifically to redistributing the world’s wealth and, then, concentrating
that wealth, and therefore power, into the hands of few who wish to manage
masses by means of international “soft law” inclusive of agreements, conventions,
declarations, executive orders, pacts, summits, treaties.

Railing
against “the hegemonic pretensions of the American empire,” Venezuelan
president Hugo Chavez recently fingered George W. as “the devil” himself,
“placing at risk the very survival of the human species.” A second look
reveals an even more ominous threat to America than her presumed pretensions.
That being, an emerging North American integration model with planned
superhighway system destined to divide our nation in half.

Already,
the European Union serves as model for “a common future,” soon to be realized
worldwide. EU economic fundamentals outshine the United States, now the
world’s largest debtor nation. As a result, the 7th CIVICUS World Assembly
(Glascow, May 2007) will call upon Europe, not the U.S., to take the lead
in establishing a Global Marshall Plan in order to redistribute wealth
and, thus, advance the UN guiding principle of sustainability.

To further
the global agenda, planned political and economic union among Mexico,
Canada, and the US will model the EU. But, then, this problematic marriage
comes as no favor. America’s exposure to the real “devils” of this fallen
world is all the more enabled in view of today’s geo-political climate
when coupled with free and open movement of people, trade and capital.
Already, America hosts upwards of twenty million illegal aliens, plus
millions more foreign workers, supposedly here temporarily.

Good-bye,
Grand Meta-narrative

For
the harmonized—i.e., borderless—New World Order to gel under elitist,
trans-federal government, a proper global mindset must be established,
traditionalism undermined, history rewritten, and fundamentalism silenced.

The
multi-faceted seduction of postmodernism originated with the Enlightenment,
when many intellectuals announced autonomy from God. To make sense of
reality, postmodernists believe in no “grand meta-narrative”—that is,
no “big story.” Therefore, truth crumbles into nothing more than self-serving
social or personal constructs.

In their
weakness, Christians—even men of the cloth—are not exempt from its lure.
Just last year, former president of the National Association of Evangelicals
Pastor Ted Haggard effectively stiff-armed God in becoming embroiled in
gay-sex and methamphetamine scandals. Humble repentance before a compassionate
God yields forgiveness and cleansing, true. However, Bible wisdom eschews
continuance in wrong doing so that grace might abound—seemingly a vanishing
principle even within our faith communities.

Not
chastity, not godliness, but restraint from giving offense emerges as
the virtue of highest order in today’s postmodern world. Make no mistake.
“Enlightened, higher-order critical thinking” demands the stranglehold
of political correctness. Virginia Senator George Allen learned well this
dogged mandate during a stump speech when, unfortunately, he dropped an
obscure racial epithet, which no doubt cost him the election.

Ta-ta,
Traditionalism

Each
year, the Supreme Court grants fewer petitions for review. This means
that federal lower-court decisions more often than not stick. While favoring
feminist and gay agendas, federal judges have become more aggressively
biased against parents’ rights and religious expression. Clearly, America’s
justice system bolsters the national campaign to purge Christianity’s
God from public life and government buildings.

Although
over seventy million Christians attend America’s churches, traditional
Christian speech (called hate-talk) is just about the only expression
banned today. In the words of Chief Justice Rehnquist, federal courts
“bristle with hostility to all things religious in public life.” Not so
for non-Christians. In 2006 the Supreme Court heard appeals from war-on-terror
prisoners who demanded access to pornography. Hmmm. Christian voice
silenced; war criminals heard—something is very wrong with this scenario.

The
only human rights treaty which affirms “reproductive rights of women”—the
UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women—targets culture and tradition. Few among us disagree that white
slave trade and female circumcision are damaging traditions. Problem is,
ratifying nations are bound legally to CEDAW’s provisions. This vague-by-design
treaty supersedes even their constitutions in redefining the family, promoting
“choice,” and usurping parental authority.

All
too many affirm redrawing, eclipsing, and eroding the U.S. Constitution
by means of “living Constitutionalism” and “soft law,” which favor official
preliminary ratification of an Earth Constitution in accordance with the
Constitution for the Federation of Earth. June 2007 marks the date for
the Tenth Session of the Parliament to meet Kara, Togo, West Africa.

Hidey-ho,
Revisionist History

Revisionism
introduces factual and interpretive errors, omissions, and one-sided treatments
that censor the dynamic role of Biblical Christianity in United States
history. Today’s “social science” is skewed to ignore Western culture
with its Bible base—always in the interest of diversity. For example,
seventh graders in California’s public schools are robbed of their national
heritage, but required to study Islamic history and religion (always in
favorable light).

Forget
about heroes, successes, and divine intervention associated with the founding
and perpetuity of our great nation. History and lit courses are more inclined
to teach “blame America first” propaganda simmered in a stew of political
correctness and multiculturalism. For example, Mexican rewrite of history
wrongly accuses the U.S. of stealing their homeland. According to Harvard
Professor Samuel P. Huntington, the reconquista of the Southwest
(Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, California, and Utah) is
“well under way.”

Today’s
“alternate ethic” emphasizes differences instead of shared values. That
is to say, the melting pot has given way to a salad-bowl metaphor. For
example, rather than support our Constitution and laws, speak the English
language, and embrace all that being an American entails, thousands of
illegal aliens refuse to assimilate into the melting pot our culture.
This is demonstrated by recent release of a Mexican variation of the U.S.
National Anthem.

Sadly,
the outcome of cultural and historical amnesia is that our children fail
to measure up academically. Over time, undereducated, but fully indoctrinated
youth enter the adult work force with the utopian vision of pseudo-egalitarian
global governance. No longer do they pledge allegiance to the flag of
the US of A. Theirs is a presumed-to-be ”higher calling.”

Hooray
for Kinsey

Dr.
Kinsey’s flawed (even criminal) research gave rise to the Sexual Revolution
of the 1960s. Indeed, Kinsey-trained “sexperts” openly encouraged need
for, and right to, nonproductive sexual gratification at any age and in
any way. As a result, culturally-defined preconceptions of right and wrong
were sorely challenged.

Even
though some 70% of voters approve state marriage amendments, the president
of SIECUS (Sex Instruction/Information Education Committee in the US)
fingers “faith communities” as threats to its allegedly superior pro-gay,
non-abstinence, abortion-friendly sex education, all of which trivialize
the traditional family. So much so that the U.S. Census Bureau no longer
collects data with respect to marriage, divorce, and related matters.

At odds
with traditional, Bible-based morality, a reality-check study concluded
that fully 95 percent of Americans have engaged in sex before marriage.
Research director for a private New York-based think tank, Lawrence Finer
based findings on random interviews with more than 38,000 participants
(Crary, David. 20 December 2006. “Study: Premarital Sex Normal for Most.”
Seattle, WA: The Seattle Times).

It stands
to reason that the longer one delays having sex, the fewer life partners
and, thus, the less risk of contracting sexually-transmitted diseases.
While defying reason, non-proliferating Kinseyan sexuality holds high
the UN banner of sustainability.

The
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child frees children from parental
intrusion in their religious, entertainment, or sexual choices, but that’s
not all. The UN views as legitimate the North American Man/Boy Love Association.
NAMBLA advances “intergenerational intimacy,” better known as pedophilia.
Also, voluntary prostitution is endorsed as a legitimate career choice—this,
in the name of gender equality.

No wonder
the chaste today are viewed as cultural lepers. Indeed, assistant secretary
for children and families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Wade Horn referenced society’s looking askance at “the small minority
that chooses to remain abstinent before marriage.”

Quell
the Christians

Power
shift in the wake of America’s mid-term election pales in comparison to
the certain impact of recent UN transitions. Incoming UN Secretary-general
Ban Ki-Moon began his appointment on the first of January, not long after
U.S. ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, resigned his post. This change
of command presupposes a global paradigm shift yet to be determined.

UN reformation
and treatment of Israel aren’t the only concerns. An International Criminal
Court lacks legal safeguards guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Once
ratified, the ICC is poised to wield permanent jurisdiction over numbers
of “rights” that defy clear Biblical mandate. Examples include reproductive
and lesbian rights, voluntary legalized prostitution, and adolescent autonomy
from parental guidance.

Even
so, opportunistic political strategists have learned that religion sells.
From Nancy Pelosi’s Faith Working Group to serious candidates’
hiring high-profile religious advisors, partisan politicians aspire to
corner the market on god, yet one lone voice above all must be silenced—that
of born-again, Bible-believing fundamental Christians.

Curious,
isn’t it, when no one requires Wiccan symbols to be balanced by comparable
Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or Muslim ones. Yet Halloween and Christmas—both
celebrated secularly (with taffy pulling and Santa Claus)—are likewise
decidedly religious (in celebrating Wicca’s New Year and birth of the
Savior). Only Christmas falls prey to so-called “distancing” and “proximity”
rules in the public arena.

This
month, the World Social Forum meets in Nairobi—its official slogan: “Another
World is Possible.” In the maze of differing cultures and, therefore,
religious viewpoints, this “other world” scraps much that Americans have
held dear. In fact, the Nairobi forum promises to give way instead to
a burgeoning one-world religion (neo-pantheistic syncretism), as advanced
by New Age gurus.

Try
as they might to quell the voice of Christianity, one-world religionists
are forced to swallow a bitter pill. Despite repeated back-door and frontal
attacks, as noted above, Biblical Christianity has surged in China and
other countries as well. Among China’s estimated 100 million Christian
believers are business leaders and other urban professionals. It seems
those pesky Christians simply won’t go away!

Perilous
Times

The
Bible’s prophecy of escalating wars and rumors thereof no doubt references
insurgent attacks ongoing in Iraq. At the height of summer travel, U.S.
officials raised the airline terror threat level to red—this, for the
first time since 9/11—and most assuredly not for the last time. Face it.
The world faces escalating chaos.

Continued
fighting in the western region of Sudan (Darfur) between rebels and government-supported
militias has resulted in catastrophic suffering, and the State Department’s
top diplomat for Latin America expects no shift from brutal Castro-ism.
Despite Fidel’s disappearance from the public eye, his brother Raul is
expected to carry on Cuba’s hard-line policies.

No matter
that India has yet to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. U.S.
companies now are authorized to conduct nuclear business with India. Speaking
of which, North Korea will not rule out further testing of its manufactured,
up-to-date nuclear weapons.

Former
legendary Israeli leader, Ariel Sharon was quick to offer that “Israel
won’t be the first country to introduce nuclear weaponry into the Middle
East.” In January of 2006, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broke the seals
at three nuclear facilities. Thereafter in October, he declared Israel
“on the verge of death,” later insisting that she will “soon disappear,”
as did the Soviet Union.

Though
a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel took effect in August, Lebanon’s
internal conflict has only intensified. Regional provocateurs like Iran
and Syria warrant keen scrutiny, and combat in Afghanistan passed the
five-year mark. Last June when militants linked to al-Qaeda took control
of the capital of Somalia (Mogadishu), Ethiopia offered support. This
well could lead to regional war on the Horn of Africa, thus opening a
new front in the global struggle for Islamic rule.

Once
granted a June parole from prison, Michigan’s own Dr. Death promises to
lobby for his unique brand of managed death. At 78 years old, pathologist
Jack Kevorkian claims to have assisted 130 suicides throughout the 1990s;
nonetheless, he is but a drop in the death-by-design bucket.

Drawn
from 52 countries and five continents, about one hundred members of the
Club of Rome expressly purpose to reduce earth’s population by astounding
numbers, inevitability for which resonates with Matthew 24. The Bible
anticipates widespread ethnic animosity and warfare on multiple fronts;
religious deception and persecution; world disasters and pandemics. Add
to that, abounding iniquity—not a pretty picture.

Globalism,
harmonization, anti-traditionalism, religious persecution, so-called sustainable
society—all these contribute to what many perceive as America’s free fall
in these perilous times. Still, the forecast for 2007 is a mixed bag of
death, on one hand; countered on the other by life.

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As believers
ponder what’s in store throughout 2007 and beyond for their families;
community, state, nation; and world, they rest assured that the Heavenly
Father reigns supreme. He alone grants otherworldly peace, victorious
and abundant living—even life itself.

In God’s
time, leaves of the Tree of Life referenced in Revelation 22 will affect
the healing of nations. This, I contend, is well worth the wait—and any
price to be paid.

Daughter of an
Army Colonel, Debra graduated with distinction from the University of
Iowa. She then completed a Master of Education degree from the University
of Washington. These were followed by Bachelor of Theology and Master
of Ministries degrees-both from Pacific School of Theology.

While a teacher
in Kuwait, Debra undertook a three-month journey from the Persian Gulf
to London by means of VW "bug"! One summer, she tutored the daughter of
Kuwait's Head of Parliament while serving as superintendent of Kuwait's
first Vacation Bible School.

Having authored
the ABCs of Globalism and ABCs
of Cultural -Isms, Debra speaks to Christian and secular groups alike.
Her radio spots air globally. Presently, Debra co-hosts WOMANTalk
radio with Sharon Hughes and Friends, and she contributes monthly commentaries
to Changing Worldviews and NewsWithViews.com. Debra calls the Pacific
Northwest home.

These
NGOs effectively transcend political barriers at all levels, from local
to international. They work to supplant rightful private ownership with
public ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.